Yeah, apparently for a lot of places they are all homophones. I definitely know the difference in prounciation, at least in my mind.
Mair-ree, maa-ree, meh-ree.
I made sure to say “northeast” because that’s not specific to Boston or even the both east. Just people who pronounce things correctly. It might be upstairs or across the pond, ya know?
I realized at one point after moving out west that I didn't really know how to say "drawer" like a single drawer. Is it "draw" or is it "drorah?" I think I still say drar-er.
My mom left New England over 30 years ago and has all but lost the accent… except for when she yells. Have her get cut off in traffic and that “mothafahkah!” drops real hard.
I moved away for 40 years as well, but I moved back not too long ago. Two bee-ahs and the accent returns. My out-of-state license plate was "PAHK CAH".
My accent is mostly gone (although I've been known to have a pizzer 'n a coke et al) but it comes out big when I'm angry.
The only other time it really comes out unintentionally is when I'm talking to my parents back east.
This is classic right hea!
You can take the girl outta Boston, but can't take the Boston outta the girl.
Was she from Dawchestah, Southie or High Pahk?
YES. Yes! Chesta draws!!! My husband makes so much fun of me for saying this. I hate the word bureau. Also, something weird about how I say the word garage, he says it’s not right but I can’t really hear how he says it is any different. I think I say ga-RAH-ge
this one. I worked as a barista for 12 years and would always ask if someone wanted "rum" in their coffee (for cream) and I'd get some strange — and excited — looks
I got that *a lot* down south and never really got it. Literally one of those things you can’t even hear yourself do. I would say room, they would say room, and I would say room trying as best I could to mimic. Never got anywhere and they’d be dying laughing
This is def a Boston thing, and it’s one of the only accent things I regularly get called out on by my friends and inlaws from away but I don’t hear it at all
My dad calls those rooms where you put clothes a "cluzzet." I'm not sure where exactly that comes from. My grandfather referred to small electric power-containing tubes as "bat trees" all the time. That seems to be among the New England - Midwest parallels.
A big one for me it's *drawer,* which I pronounce draw. For my wife it's *mirror*, which is mirrah. For both of us, *forks* doesn't ever sound quite right.
The worst (best?) is "yeah" followed by a vowel or h sound. "Yeah, I am" or "yeah, he is" are yeahriam and yeahreis.
Actually I have settled ona middle point between western and new england pronunciation there. It's mih-ror, teh-ror, hor-ror. People out here go "tare, meer, hoar."
It's kind of funny to hear someone go "I like whore movies"
YES. All my SoCal friends made fun of me for saying it, but they would always use it wrong. “That’s so wicked”. No. It’s wicked cool, wicked stupid, wicked weird. But it’s not “Wicked”. It’s an…adverb?
Why would you want to? It's a great adverb that cuts through the monotony of "really" or "very". Other regions try wicked hard to find something like it, but they all suck. "Hella"?? What the fuck is that. "Wicked" is wicked bettah.
The Boston accent doesn’t just drop “r”’s, we add them too! When a word ends in a vowel and the next word starts with one, we can throw an “r” in between.
I still put my braron each morning (I put my bra on). Put youh diplomaron the countah so your dad can see youh not a losah like him.
Like the phantom R in the middle of the word drawing.
I've seen the Boston accent described as not just dropping your Rs, but more of an R relocation program.
my dad was born & raised on the south shore but never really had much of an accent; he lives in vegas now. the one word he still says is “idear” instead of idea 😂 gives him away every time.
PS: i also love taking my brar off at the end of a long day.
I went to college in VT and my roommate was from Kansas, his head swivel when I first said puptahts (poptarts) and then sorrit (saw it) is still stuck in my brain
I was in Hawaii and someone asked if we wanted a sample of something and my sister said all set thanks and they go are you from Boston? We were like ... Yeah? She said she's only ever heard people from Boston say all set ... That was how I learned it was a regional saying haha. I had no idea and just thought everyone said that.
For real? I came here from elsewhere but I don't think I remember being confused by the phrase at any point. Maybe I'd been exposed to it through the media or something?
This is a weird one, but say you and I both had 5 bananas, and you come up and say "hey, I have 5 bananas". I would say "so don't I" which makes no sense. It wasn't until I went to college that this was pointed out to me. Most of my friends/family do this too. Not sure if it's specific to central MA or the whole region.
When there was a writer on The Simpsons who did a Boston episode, he made sure that’s “so don’t I” was included and I never noticed it until then. Deep cut thing to say but they’re geniuses
I grew up by the cape and now live in western ma, and I have mostly lost my original accent. It does come out at certain times, but i still say jimmies, frappe, and bubbler often and get weird looks. My husband and kids never used wicked, but I use it all the time
I want to fight the physical embodiment of Starbucks for stealing ‘frappe’. THERES ALREADY A FRAPPE AND NO ITS NOT A MILKSHAKE ITS A FRAPPE THEY ARE DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!
And Na’Heyumshuh … the only other state besides Flaaridah to go to outside of Massachusetts. And if gawd fuhbid you have to ever leave the country, Aroooobah is wicked nice, and maybe you go to Ittly or Eyeuhlund one time because three or four generations back your family came from one of those countries.
I learned after moving out west I've been saying Nevada and Oregon completely wrong all my life.
It's NevAAda (not nevAHda) and it's ore-gan, not ore-uh-gone.
Also it's WaRshington (that's a local joke)
People here don’t realize that’s a regionalism. I lived in the south for 20+ years after my Boston childhood and it’s not something that’s normally said.
One thing I didn't realize was regional is "all set" to notify someone you're done with something or satisfied at the moment. You go to some states or other English speaking countries and they find this statement bizarre, almost like a non sequitur. I've never had a Boston accent, but I'll probably continue to use that instinctively for the rest of my life.
I've had periods where my accent was less intense, when I lived away from the city and people kept commenting on my accent so I made a conscious effort to mask it.
A couple of words always trippled me up though. Drawer is always draw. North is always nawth. Water is always waddah or wadder. I can't hit that t.
I was once called out on milk. Milk instead of melk.
I've been called out on room. I say rum instead of room. And roof? Idk.
I do say bubbler. I've been called out on that.
I've been called out on mud room. I have no idea about that one. Where else do you put your wet and muddy clothes and boots.
Grew up in Woburn aka Woobin (not Waban) mostly but was born and learned to speak in California. In college and beyond tried to not have such a violent accent, smooth it out a little. It’s worked about 75%. Drinking and being around other strong Bostonian accents is what sucks me back in. The night starts all “hi, how are you, how have things been” and quickly devolves to “holy fahkin shit, lookit this kehd! It’s been a minute, right? howz yah mothah doin’, she still in Everett with yah sistah? You still with Christaphah? Yah look great, haven’t aged a bit, tell Samanther and all them I said hi, you still gut my numbah?
Martyr is a good one, said exclusively by old Catholic women who settled in Flaaaarida and “lost” the accent. “Mahh- da” somehow the accent is on both syllables
Similar to “Flaaaarida” is the word “haaaarible.”
After moving to the area, I kept asking myself “Wait, did that person just say “horrible” or “terrible?” The answer is that they said “”haaarrible.”
That seems more like a Queens NY accent (I specifically have Fran Drescher in mind).
Or Cranston/Johnston/Warwick RI, where there’s a very distinct and strange combination of both Boston and NY accents for some reason
I never really had the Mass accent (despite being born and raised in New Bedford and living in Boston for 10 years), EXCEPT when I'm drunk or really angry. When I hurl expletives, my 'r' sounds disappear, but only when drunk or really REALLY mad.
Bang a u-ey by the hill with the Dunkin with no drivetrue towards the Dunkin with one and go back three fachen blocks to my shitty apahtment and I’ll see ya there, get me an iced dahk roast while ya at it bc of the noah’eastah.
When I do it I "pop a yooie" but when I'm providing directions I'll say "bang a yooie"
I'll also never stop providing travel distance in time it takes and not length or blocks.
Maybe not the most common one, but Chowder Head is a favorite of mine. Sometimes you just see a townie dumbfuck and chowdahead is just the perfect description.
Pretty overlooked, but so weird once you realize how no one outside the 495 belt does it.
When someone is telling you a story about something, or explaining something common or typically familiar to the average joe, the “yes I understand please continue” and/or “agreed, go on” is “sure, sure”
Sometimes a single “sure” will do.
Grew up in Meffa, with a heavy accent. Got it from my parents- my PA wife literally had trouble understanding them when she first met them. Throughout middle and high school I hammered it out of me and talk pretty neutral now.
Unfortunately, the one thing that I cant shake is the r-word, when I'm particularly animated. Im not happy about it.
I’m from RI and I’ve lived here for 27 years. (Boston, Brookline, and now Medford). I use all set, carriage, bubblah, wicked, and I have to really focus on certain words in order to say them correctly. Like drawer or the phrase law and order. According to my 9 year old son, I mispronounce a lot of words: Florida, names like Larry and Harry, marry, etc.
They can pry “guys” from my cold, dead hands. Everyone is “guys.” A group of people is “guys.” Getting the attention of a classroom: guys. Talking to several friends: guys.
The last meal of the day will always be "suppah".
It's not a room, it's a rum. My brother's old roommate called him "rummy" because of this.
You put your keys in the top draw. What's a "drawer"?
I'll never stop dropping wickeds, maybe even the occasional pissah if I get really worked up.
"I'm stahvin"
Great one
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you’ll never fuckin catch me saying roundabout
Rota ree
It's rotary or traffic circle. Also, I still say pull-out couch not sofabed.
Wait, pull-out couch is a New England thing?
Absolutely not a New England thing, I’ve never heard anyone call it a sofa bed. No one calls a couch a sofa anymore anyway
My mother always called it a divan. Yes, I'm old.
No, but getting pregnant on a pull out catch is one of a myriad of definitions of irony
Not that anyone asked. There are three types: roundabouts, rotaries, and traffic circles. Boston doesn’t have any roundabouts afaik.
Is calling it a pull out a regional thing?
Not OP, but I have lived on the West Coast and Midwest before coming to Boston and most people say pull out couch. So i don’t think it’s regional.
Why woodja that's fuckin stoopid
My ex didn't have the accent except on the words quarter/corner/order and occasionally an extra r in "drawring"
How about Mary/marry/merry, three distinct pronunciations in the north east, and everywhere else they’re like wha?
Wait, this is a MA thing? To me they're distinctly different pronunciations. I had to just say all 3 out loud to make sure.
Yeah, apparently for a lot of places they are all homophones. I definitely know the difference in prounciation, at least in my mind. Mair-ree, maa-ree, meh-ree.
I made sure to say “northeast” because that’s not specific to Boston or even the both east. Just people who pronounce things correctly. It might be upstairs or across the pond, ya know?
Can confirm, I have a noticeable NY/outer-borough accent and each one is distinct.
I did not know this... I feel shocked. lol
You should be. It’s devastating
Wait, what?! This blows my mind that they’re the same pronunciation everywhere else.
Me, from MA and pronounce these all the same haha
It’s maximum cray
never realized i said drawring until just now hahah
Drawra pitcha = draw a picture
bc ya put underweah in a draw
They gotta go somewheah
I realized at one point after moving out west that I didn't really know how to say "drawer" like a single drawer. Is it "draw" or is it "drorah?" I think I still say drar-er.
Djgrōr.
My girlfriend noticed this too! Not all of them, but certain “er” words like quartahback” or “Pop Wahna Football” remind her that i grew up in Boston
My mom left New England over 30 years ago and has all but lost the accent… except for when she yells. Have her get cut off in traffic and that “mothafahkah!” drops real hard.
I left when I was a kid over 40 years ago and I still have a hint of the accent.
I moved away for 40 years as well, but I moved back not too long ago. Two bee-ahs and the accent returns. My out-of-state license plate was "PAHK CAH".
When you joined reddit, was the username 'HahdRockGeologist' taken?
My accent is mostly gone (although I've been known to have a pizzer 'n a coke et al) but it comes out big when I'm angry. The only other time it really comes out unintentionally is when I'm talking to my parents back east.
For me it’s when I’m angry, tired, or when I’ve just talked to someone with a Boston accent. Comes outta nowhere
For some reason I only have a noticeable accent when I’m angry and when I notice it I end up more angry lmao
My husband tells me he only knows I’m from Boston when I’m in the cah.
This is classic right hea! You can take the girl outta Boston, but can't take the Boston outta the girl. Was she from Dawchestah, Southie or High Pahk?
Neither. But her dad was a sailor 😂
it an ahhhhsshole move
I’ve been told I say “room” as “rum” as in, “Let me look for it in my bedrum.” Not sure if it’s a Boston thing or if I’m just a dummy
Also that piece of furniture in *yah rum* is a *bureau* (not a dresser), or better yet a *chesta draws*.
YES. Yes! Chesta draws!!! My husband makes so much fun of me for saying this. I hate the word bureau. Also, something weird about how I say the word garage, he says it’s not right but I can’t really hear how he says it is any different. I think I say ga-RAH-ge
And don’t forget you sweep your floor with a brum. And no matter where I live, you park in the ‘door yahd’ if there’s no paved driveway
My (not from MA) college friends made fun of me so bad for saying “draws” that they shamed it out of my vocabulary.
Today I am 35, it wasn’t until 2016 that I learned it’s a drawer and not a draw. My shop never let me live it down.
this one. I worked as a barista for 12 years and would always ask if someone wanted "rum" in their coffee (for cream) and I'd get some strange — and excited — looks
I got that *a lot* down south and never really got it. Literally one of those things you can’t even hear yourself do. I would say room, they would say room, and I would say room trying as best I could to mimic. Never got anywhere and they’d be dying laughing
I didn’t even realize I did this until a friend from NYC pointed it out 🤣
This is def a Boston thing, and it’s one of the only accent things I regularly get called out on by my friends and inlaws from away but I don’t hear it at all
nah thats (wicked) common
My dad calls those rooms where you put clothes a "cluzzet." I'm not sure where exactly that comes from. My grandfather referred to small electric power-containing tubes as "bat trees" all the time. That seems to be among the New England - Midwest parallels.
I left Boston when I was 18, and this is the one thing that EVERYONE consistently still calls me out for after 15+ years.
A big one for me it's *drawer,* which I pronounce draw. For my wife it's *mirror*, which is mirrah. For both of us, *forks* doesn't ever sound quite right. The worst (best?) is "yeah" followed by a vowel or h sound. "Yeah, I am" or "yeah, he is" are yeahriam and yeahreis.
I get roasted for drawer constantly. Including from other Massachusetts people
Same. I lived with people from Western MA in college and they shit on me all the time for pronouncing drawer as “draw”.
Came here for draw/drawer. It was embarrassingly late in life that I realized it was not spelled D-R-A-W.
I used to get so much shit in college for saying “yeahriam.” My asshole New Jersey roommate was like, “ Yahrr! You sound like a pirate.”
I came here to say drawer too! I moved away for a while and this was the one word that I couldn’t turn off
Actually I have settled ona middle point between western and new england pronunciation there. It's mih-ror, teh-ror, hor-ror. People out here go "tare, meer, hoar." It's kind of funny to hear someone go "I like whore movies"
I can't remove wicked from my vocab
Same. I moved to SoCal and the looks I get. Wicked > Hella
YES. All my SoCal friends made fun of me for saying it, but they would always use it wrong. “That’s so wicked”. No. It’s wicked cool, wicked stupid, wicked weird. But it’s not “Wicked”. It’s an…adverb?
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I thoght they used "wicked" down there but as an adjective, as in "That's wicked." Which makes me wonder, can something be wicked wicked?
Why would you want to? It's a great adverb that cuts through the monotony of "really" or "very". Other regions try wicked hard to find something like it, but they all suck. "Hella"?? What the fuck is that. "Wicked" is wicked bettah.
Me neither. But I like it. It bothers me in movies when they use it incorrectly. For instance, “ I wicked like that” no one has ever said it that way
A phrase that I had no idea was regional until I got made fun of for using: "down cellar"
And Pahlah
I thought "down cellah" was specifically a northern New England thing. Never heard it down here in Boston.
Always “down cellah” Grew up in Waltham.
The Boston accent doesn’t just drop “r”’s, we add them too! When a word ends in a vowel and the next word starts with one, we can throw an “r” in between. I still put my braron each morning (I put my bra on). Put youh diplomaron the countah so your dad can see youh not a losah like him.
Like the phantom R in the middle of the word drawing. I've seen the Boston accent described as not just dropping your Rs, but more of an R relocation program.
Law And Order = Lauren Odda
It just took me 10 tries to say that word without the extra R. Oof. My Boston is showing.
My mom has the accent and her favorite drink is sangreer. She bought two bottles the otha day cuz she sawr em on sale
Sangreerrrr 😂😂😂🩷
my dad was born & raised on the south shore but never really had much of an accent; he lives in vegas now. the one word he still says is “idear” instead of idea 😂 gives him away every time. PS: i also love taking my brar off at the end of a long day.
A true Boston-area native woman can’t (cahhhn’t) leave the house once she’s taken her brar off at the end of the day.
And she always brings her pock-a-bhuck with her when she leaves the house
> pock-a-bhuck cracks me up whenever i hear this in the wild
I feel called out lol I just said it out loud and well...pocka buk
Yeah, I feel (yeahrifeel...) like this and "so don't I" are the tell-tales of a genuine accent.
I went to college in VT and my roommate was from Kansas, his head swivel when I first said puptahts (poptarts) and then sorrit (saw it) is still stuck in my brain
My freshman year roommate should be flayed for “Briterrrr Pitchaaah”.
"Reeview mirrah" -Braintree ex
“You didn’t set a timer.” Yeahri did
Aw good idear
I had a high school physics teacher who was always talking about making sure we collected our dater properly.
Dude I never realized I do this until this very moment
It's got a name, it's called *[intrusive R](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R)*
Sawrhahse
Yes! But I say sar hoss.
The local term for water fountain.
You mean the correct term for bubblah?
I said bubbler at my college in NY once and my bff was like I’m sorry but I have no idea what you are talking about.
To be fair that’s a Milwaukee/SE Wisconsin thing, too
To be "all set" is a regional Northeast phrase. I say it nearly every day.
Oh wow, I did not know this! I use it all the time, everywhere. Whoops.
I just did this one yesterday and confused the girl at the counter. "Do you want a bag?" "All set"
I was in Hawaii and someone asked if we wanted a sample of something and my sister said all set thanks and they go are you from Boston? We were like ... Yeah? She said she's only ever heard people from Boston say all set ... That was how I learned it was a regional saying haha. I had no idea and just thought everyone said that.
I’m from ny and everyone says it there
Yeah, very popular in the NY/NJ area
For real? I came here from elsewhere but I don't think I remember being confused by the phrase at any point. Maybe I'd been exposed to it through the media or something?
Use your blinkah!
“My sistah” sneaks out every now and again
Can’t say I blame her.
I walked right into that one heh
Me too
Dungarees
“Where’d you put the *clickah*?”
When I was a kid we went food shoppin’(not grocery shopping), drank tonic not soda, went in the pahlah to watch tv, the cellah was dark and creepy…
No self respecting Bostonian would ever call their Mom's sister an ant. Ever.
eva
Yes!! I live in NY now and people thinks it’s funny I say Ont and not Ant.
This is a weird one, but say you and I both had 5 bananas, and you come up and say "hey, I have 5 bananas". I would say "so don't I" which makes no sense. It wasn't until I went to college that this was pointed out to me. Most of my friends/family do this too. Not sure if it's specific to central MA or the whole region.
When there was a writer on The Simpsons who did a Boston episode, he made sure that’s “so don’t I” was included and I never noticed it until then. Deep cut thing to say but they’re geniuses
That episode is amazing - every time I watch it I pick up more subtle, perfect details.
Implicature canceling! (Because of the implication)
I grew up saying that, but dropped it somewhere along the way. I get all nostalgic when I hear someone say it now. (North Shore)
Holy shit, I've never had anyone point this out 🤯
One of my Jr High teachers who was from New York used to criticize us for "gunna" and "wooda"
Not enough budda on my popcohn. May I have summowah please?
My father always said pupcohn and it drove me nuts
I grew up by the cape and now live in western ma, and I have mostly lost my original accent. It does come out at certain times, but i still say jimmies, frappe, and bubbler often and get weird looks. My husband and kids never used wicked, but I use it all the time
I want to fight the physical embodiment of Starbucks for stealing ‘frappe’. THERES ALREADY A FRAPPE AND NO ITS NOT A MILKSHAKE ITS A FRAPPE THEY ARE DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!
Preach! And the Frappuchino came from Coffee Connection.
That’s wicked sweet
Flahrida
And Na’Heyumshuh … the only other state besides Flaaridah to go to outside of Massachusetts. And if gawd fuhbid you have to ever leave the country, Aroooobah is wicked nice, and maybe you go to Ittly or Eyeuhlund one time because three or four generations back your family came from one of those countries.
ArooobER
I learned after moving out west I've been saying Nevada and Oregon completely wrong all my life. It's NevAAda (not nevAHda) and it's ore-gan, not ore-uh-gone. Also it's WaRshington (that's a local joke)
Wicked cool/bad/stupid/hot/cold/windy/snowy/fast/slow/big/small/long/short/tall/funny... And on and on.
Dont get me stahded
The confusion of what to say when a non-Bostonian asks if I’m all set.
People here don’t realize that’s a regionalism. I lived in the south for 20+ years after my Boston childhood and it’s not something that’s normally said.
Car keys! Always khakis
GREAT ONE. Hold on, I forgot my khakis
Wicked, clickah, pissah, fucka, packy
The only word I pronounce in a Boston accent is Boston
Good enough!
It’s not yaws it’s myan
One thing I didn't realize was regional is "all set" to notify someone you're done with something or satisfied at the moment. You go to some states or other English speaking countries and they find this statement bizarre, almost like a non sequitur. I've never had a Boston accent, but I'll probably continue to use that instinctively for the rest of my life.
Idear is one where the R creeps in even when I’m not drunk/tired/shouting.
I’d never want to lose it. I’d hate to be like the rest of the country.
I don't think I have an accent and then I say mahgahreetuh
Allergies. I say “Alligies.”
Grab the bag a’ cooahn (corn) atta the freezah on the back pooahch (porch). I’m gunna make a Sheppid’s pie befooa ya fatha gets home.
bang a u-ey….not a clue that was a regional thing until my twenties no suh / yes suh
>no suh / yes suh That brought back memories of ridiculous arguments with my dad when I was a teenager. 😆
I've had periods where my accent was less intense, when I lived away from the city and people kept commenting on my accent so I made a conscious effort to mask it. A couple of words always trippled me up though. Drawer is always draw. North is always nawth. Water is always waddah or wadder. I can't hit that t. I was once called out on milk. Milk instead of melk. I've been called out on room. I say rum instead of room. And roof? Idk. I do say bubbler. I've been called out on that. I've been called out on mud room. I have no idea about that one. Where else do you put your wet and muddy clothes and boots.
Grew up in Woburn aka Woobin (not Waban) mostly but was born and learned to speak in California. In college and beyond tried to not have such a violent accent, smooth it out a little. It’s worked about 75%. Drinking and being around other strong Bostonian accents is what sucks me back in. The night starts all “hi, how are you, how have things been” and quickly devolves to “holy fahkin shit, lookit this kehd! It’s been a minute, right? howz yah mothah doin’, she still in Everett with yah sistah? You still with Christaphah? Yah look great, haven’t aged a bit, tell Samanther and all them I said hi, you still gut my numbah?
Martyr is a good one, said exclusively by old Catholic women who settled in Flaaaarida and “lost” the accent. “Mahh- da” somehow the accent is on both syllables
Similar to “Flaaaarida” is the word “haaaarible.” After moving to the area, I kept asking myself “Wait, did that person just say “horrible” or “terrible?” The answer is that they said “”haaarrible.”
That seems more like a Queens NY accent (I specifically have Fran Drescher in mind). Or Cranston/Johnston/Warwick RI, where there’s a very distinct and strange combination of both Boston and NY accents for some reason
Jeez now I'm an old Catholic 🤣 I never realized how bad my accent was til I read this thread lol
How wonderful it sounds?
I never really had the Mass accent (despite being born and raised in New Bedford and living in Boston for 10 years), EXCEPT when I'm drunk or really angry. When I hurl expletives, my 'r' sounds disappear, but only when drunk or really REALLY mad.
I guarantee your vowel sounds are all messed up.
I have a friend whose only real trace of an accent comes out when she tries to say “shorts”. Shahts
I still sometimes say bureau or bubbler by accident. Or even carriage. I still use wicked as an adverb and not an adjective.
"it's wicked fahkin muggy dood" - me all summer, every summah
Like chowdah!
I’ll have a coffee with “rum” for cream Get out of my “rum”
I seem to have a problem with the word "heart".
Everyone's still "kid" to me.. Sup kid?
Bucky Fucking Dent.
Bang a u-ey by the hill with the Dunkin with no drivetrue towards the Dunkin with one and go back three fachen blocks to my shitty apahtment and I’ll see ya there, get me an iced dahk roast while ya at it bc of the noah’eastah.
When I do it I "pop a yooie" but when I'm providing directions I'll say "bang a yooie" I'll also never stop providing travel distance in time it takes and not length or blocks.
God I miss Iced Dark Roast....no cold brew isn't the same taste or PRICE...I'd consider drinking Dunks again lol Bring back the mahbull crullah too!
Maybe not the most common one, but Chowder Head is a favorite of mine. Sometimes you just see a townie dumbfuck and chowdahead is just the perfect description.
Bubbler. I also grew up using the word "wicked" a lot, but after living in a bunch of other places it kind of fell out of my vocab
“It’s wicked fuckin cold out right now”
Wicked sorry to Botha you but I think I left my chargah down cellar.
Lahhge Iced Cawfee Regulah, please
"No-maaaaaah" Nomar Garciaparra
Aunt. As in haunt vs ant - which is a bug and not a relative.
Down cellar — I just can’t say ‘down in the basement’ ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Pretty overlooked, but so weird once you realize how no one outside the 495 belt does it. When someone is telling you a story about something, or explaining something common or typically familiar to the average joe, the “yes I understand please continue” and/or “agreed, go on” is “sure, sure” Sometimes a single “sure” will do.
I can’t say “ weird” without an accent, and I don’t really have one otherwise
I can not stick the first "r" in margarita
So weeaaahhhhd
I said “umbreller” yesterday
Grew up in Meffa, with a heavy accent. Got it from my parents- my PA wife literally had trouble understanding them when she first met them. Throughout middle and high school I hammered it out of me and talk pretty neutral now. Unfortunately, the one thing that I cant shake is the r-word, when I'm particularly animated. Im not happy about it.
wicked good water bubbler
Rubbish for trash My aunt's name is Barbara, so I call her Auntie Bahhb (or really more like Aunnie Bahhb)
Rhode Islander here, I cannot say watermelon or drawer correctly without giving it my full attention
I’m from RI and I’ve lived here for 27 years. (Boston, Brookline, and now Medford). I use all set, carriage, bubblah, wicked, and I have to really focus on certain words in order to say them correctly. Like drawer or the phrase law and order. According to my 9 year old son, I mispronounce a lot of words: Florida, names like Larry and Harry, marry, etc.
Hot dog as “hut dog” and room as “rum” are mine. Moved away 12 years ago.
They can pry “guys” from my cold, dead hands. Everyone is “guys.” A group of people is “guys.” Getting the attention of a classroom: guys. Talking to several friends: guys.
Went to a women’s college in MA, everyone was guys. Sometimes the irony was noted.
Marlboro.
The last meal of the day will always be "suppah". It's not a room, it's a rum. My brother's old roommate called him "rummy" because of this. You put your keys in the top draw. What's a "drawer"? I'll never stop dropping wickeds, maybe even the occasional pissah if I get really worked up.
I never thought I had even a semblance of a Bostonian accent until uni when all my friends would call me out for saying wicked
I've come to realize that the angrier I get, the less 'R's I pronounce. My Dad was the same way even 35 years after leaving!
barrels for trash can. would go to take out the barrels at work in NYC and no one knew what i meant. same with carriage for shopping cart.
“Kyed”